Beyond The Bounce launches with DUPR as an official rating partner

Pickleball has a new home online. Beyond The Bounce, a pickleball social media app built entirely around the sport and its community, officially launches Friday, October 23, with DUPR as an official rating partner.

The platform gives players, fans, creators, and brands one dedicated space to discover, watch, create, share, and connect. From professional athletes to weekend rec players, everyone gets a voice on Beyond The Bounce.

What is Beyond The Bounce?

Beyond The Bounce is an open, community-driven social content platform dedicated to the sport and lifestyle of pickleball. Users can post their own content, follow players and creators, and find pickleball videos without scrolling past unrelated feeds.

Beyond The Bounce is open to the entire sport. Every brand, player, and fan is welcome to create an account and post.

The mission is clear: build the digital home for pickleball. That means bringing the sport’s media, personalities, players, and community together in one place to watch, learn, and share their stories.

Why pickleball needs its own social media app

Pickleball is widely recognized as one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. The way fans find pickleball content has not kept up with that growth.

Today, pickleball content creators share their work across platforms built for general audiences. They compete with millions of daily uploads in every category and work against algorithms that don’t prioritize the sport. For viewers, finding pickleball content means searching across multiple apps where pickleball is just one category among thousands.

“The current pickleball media landscape is fragmented and not evolving at the pace needed to match the growth of the industry,” said the Beyond The Bounce team.

Beyond The Bounce takes a different approach. Because the platform serves only pickleball, it can build discovery, social, and engagement features designed specifically for the sport. Those are features large general platforms have little reason to build for a single sport.

Built for the whole pickleball community

Beyond The Bounce is designed for anyone with an interest in the game. Its audience includes:

• Players at every level, from first-time picklers to touring pros
• Content creators building an audience in the sport
• Clubs and facilities of every size and affiliation, sharing news, highlights, and events
• Brands and media outlets reaching pickleball fans directly
• Casual fans looking for entertainment

On Beyond The Bounce, audience size, professional status, and affiliation don’t decide who gets seen. The platform aims to create an inclusive media space where every member of the community has the same opportunity to participate and be discovered.

Pros and creators joining Beyond The Bounce

Some of the sport’s familiar names are already on board. Ryan Morneau, a former No. 1 collegiate pickleball player who now runs Pickleball Breakdown Academy, is set to start sharing content on the app at launch.

Three pro pickleball players, JW Johnson, Jorja Johnson, and Dekel Bar, have also joined Beyond The Bounce as strategic advisors. Their experience on the pro tour gives the platform a direct line to what players and fans want from pickleball content.

With established creators and top pros involved from day one, new users will find content to watch the moment they open the app.

DUPR named an official rating partner of Beyond The Bounce

DUPR joins Beyond The Bounce at launch as an official rating partner of the platform. The partnership brings the world’s most accurate pickleball rating system to a platform built around the players and community behind every match.

DUPR has already set up its official account on Beyond The Bounce and will share a variety of content with the community. Followers can expect rating insights, event news, player features, and community stories, all in one place alongside the rest of the sport’s content.

The fit is a natural one. DUPR connects players through accurate ratings and competitive play. Beyond The Bounce connects them through the content and conversations that happen around every match.

How to join Beyond The Bounce

The app goes live Friday, October 23 for iOS in the App Store and coming soon to Google Play for Android. Once available, users can download the app, set up a profile, and start posting, watching, and connecting with players and creators across the sport. Users can also access the platform via the website at: play.beyondthebounce.com 

Clubs, facilities, creators, and brands can join on launch day to start building their presence on the platform from the beginning. New users can also follow DUPR’s account right away to stay current on ratings, events, and community news.

A dedicated space for the pickleball community

Beyond The Bounce gives pickleball a social home built for everyone who plays and loves the game, with DUPR on board as an official rating partner. Download the app on October 23 and follow DUPR to stay connected. While you’re at it, log your latest matches in the DUPR app to keep your rating current.

About DUPR

DUPR (Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating) is the premier global pickleball rating system and technology platform, trusted by the world’s leading clubs, tournaments, leagues and players. DUPR’s dynamic rating system unifies pickleball across age, gender and location by analyzing match results to accurately evaluate all players across a 2.000–8.000 scale. DUPR is the official pickleball rating of leagues, tournaments and clubs around the world, including Global Pickleball Federation (GPF), USA Pickleball (USAP), United Pickleball Association (UPA), Professional Pickleball Association (PPA), Major League Pickleball (MLP), Pickleball.com, Life Time, The Picklr, National Team Pickleball League and National Pickleball League. It also owns and operates Minor League Pickleball and the College Pickleball Tour, two of the biggest amateur leagues in the sport. Players and operators can visit www.dupr.com to sign up and learn more.

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